Amaz0n likes to aggregate reviews for multiple products. To only see reviews for the one product you are looking at,
click on “XXX customer reviews” right below product title, then the XXX under “Customer reviews”.
Click on “All formats” drop down, and select “Show only reviews for <one product>”.

To see all the products that a coupon on a product page is applicable to,
right click on “Extra xxx Off Coupon” to “Copy link/shortcut address/location”.
Paste the link into a browser, delete from ? to the end, then Enter.

It seems that CCleaner, one of PCWorld’s recommendations for the best free software for new PCs, might not have been keeping your PC so clean after all. In an in-depth probe of the popular optimization and scrubbing software, Cisco Talos has discovered a malicious bit of code injected by hackers that could have affected more than 2 million users who downloaded the most recent update.

[Editor’s note: This article was first published on September 18, 2017, but was updated on Sept. 21 with details about the malware targeting specific technology companies for industrial espionage.]

On Sept. 13, Cisco Talos found that the official download of the free versions of CCleaner 5.33 and CCleaner Cloud 1.07.3191 also contained “a malicious payload that featured a Domain Generation Algorithm as well as hardcoded Command and Control functionality.” What that means is that a hacker infiltrated Avast Piriform’s official build somewhere in the development process build to plant malware designed to steal users’ data.

Cisco Talos suspects that the attacker “compromised a portion of (CCleaner’s) development or build environment and leveraged that access to insert malware into the CCleaner build that was released and hosted by the organization.” As such, customers’ personal information was not at risk.
[ Further reading: How the new age of antivirus software will protect your PC ]

In a blog post by vice president of products Paul Yung, he states that the company identified the attack on Sept. 12 and had taken the appropriate action even before Cisco Talos notified them of their discovery. Yung says the attack was limited to CCleaner and CCleaner Cloud on 32-bit Windows systems—fortunately, most modern PCs will likely be running the 64-bit version.

Yung assures customers that the threat has been resolved and the “rogue server” has been taken down. He also says Piriform has shut down the hackers’ access to other servers. Additionally, the company is moving all users to the latest version of the software, which is already available on the company’s website (though the release notes only mention “minor big fixes.”)

Most reassuringly, Yung states that Avast was seemingly able to disarm the threat before it was able to do any harm. The intent of the attack is unclear at this time, though Avast says the code was able to collect information about the local system.

Update: On September 21, Avast revealed that the malware was designed to deliver a second-stage payload to infected computers in specific organizations, and at least 20 machines across eight companies contacted the command and control server. “Given that the logs were only collected for little over three days, the actual number of computers that received the 2nd stage payload was likely at least in the order of hundreds,” Avast says.

Cisco Talos also studied the malware’s command server and reports that it was attempting to infiltrate PCs in technology organizations, including Intel, Samsung, HTC, VMWare, Cisco itself, and others. You can see the full list at right. Cisco Talos suspects the attackers planned to use the malware to conduct industrial espionage.

What to do about CCleaner malware

Personal users can download CCleaner 5.34 from Avast’s website if they haven’t already done so. Previous releases are also still available on the company’s website, but the infected version has been removed from the company’s servers. You’ll also want to perform an antivirus scan on your computer. If you’re affected, Cisco Talos recommends using a backup to restore your PC to a state prior to August 15, 2017, which is when the hacked version was released.

The impact on you at home: While personal users within the target area shouldn’t see any impact from this attempted attack, it’s still a scary notion. While Avast got in front of the issue and resolved it without incident, smaller companies might not be able to react so quickly. For example, earlier this year, it was found that a breach at Ukranian software company MeDoc was responsible for the NotPetya ransomware. Ransomware is becoming a troubling trend, and if hackers are able to infect infect update servers they can spread malware to as many machines as possible.

The original MCR program ended in June. There is no way to accumulate points to redeem for gift cards or merchandise ever again (unless Coke decides to revive/reinvent the program).

https://us.coca-cola.com/offers/ is the new program. Codes now only have a single value, regardless of source (cap or 12-pk flap or whatever), and can be entered for contests and occasional items and coupons. For example, there is currently an offer to get a large popcorn at AMC theaters by entering ten codes.

So, don’t just throw out unredeemed codes just yet, but no, they don’t have the same value they used to have.

I see an offer for a $5 Amazon GC on that page:

ENJOY AN AMAZON(dot)COM GIFT CARD FROM COKE

Treat yourself this holiday with a gift from us. Enter codes from any 10 Coca-Cola products to receive a $5 Amazon eGift Card! Ends 12/21/17. Must claim Reward by 12/31/17.

I guess Target and Walmart got under their skin… Also good news for those who let their Prime memberships lapse after the latest price increases.

November 5, 2018 at 3:00 AM EST

Amazon Expands Free Shipping to Everyone for the Holiday Season - For a limited time, all Amazon customers in the U.S. can enjoy free shipping with no minimum purchase amount:

Customers can shop the largest free shipping selection in the country – hundreds of millions of items on Amazon

Tens of millions of Prime members in the U.S. can also shop FREE Same-Day Delivery on more than three million eligible items

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 5, 2018-- (NASDAQ: AMZN) – This holiday season Amazon is giving customers even more convenient and faster delivery options. Starting today, November 5, and for a limited time, all Amazon customers can enjoy free shipping with no minimum purchase amount on orders that will arrive in time for the Christmas holiday. This offer applies to hundreds of millions of items – the largest free shipping selection in the country. Plus, tens of millions of Prime members can shop with FREE Same-Day Delivery, now available on more than three million items – the largest same-day selection in the U.S. including the best gifts like toys and electronics, as well as home, fashion and everything you need to enjoy the holidays. Additionally, Prime members in more than 60 cities can receive delivery in as little as an hour from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now, making holiday feast planning even easier. This is, of course, on top of the unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping that Prime members enjoy every day on more than 100 million items.

“This holiday, customers can enjoy free shipping with no minimum purchase amount on orders that will arrive in time for Christmas, including items from Amazon’s expertly curated Gift Guides across electronics, fashion, home and toys,” said Doug Herrington, Senior Vice President of North American Retail at Amazon. “With hundreds of millions of items available for free shipping to all Amazon customers and more than three million items available with Prime FREE Same-Day Delivery, customers can enjoy the largest selection of items that are fast and free.”

Doorstep delivery and convenient pick up:

Free Shipping This Holiday: All Amazon customers can shop hundreds of millions of items including every product category with free shipping, and now for a limited time, there is no minimum purchase amount on orders delivered through the holiday season.

Delivery as Fast as Today: Tens of millions of Prime members can shop with FREE Same-Day Delivery on more than three million items. Place an order in the morning and receive eligible same-day orders before bedtime that very same day, seven days a week – even Sunday.

Two-Day Shipping on 100 Million Items: Free Two-Day Shipping is available to all Prime members in the U.S. on more than 100 million items with no minimum purchase amount all year.

One Hour Grocery Delivery + Pickup: Prime members can shop groceries from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now in as little as an hour in 60 cities, and grocery pickup in as little as thirty minutes in select cities – making holiday feast planning or last minute baking even easier. And even beyond groceries, Prime members can use Prime Now to get one- and two-hour delivery on tens of thousands of items across dozens of categories in 30 major cities, perfect for last minute parties, gifts or travel.

had posted this in DD an hour ago not realizing there was a thread already, wouldn’t have found it even if I searched since I was using Fatwallet in the title.

It’s hard to believe it’s almost a year now since fatwallet.com disappeared.

Think about it pretty often, reminded of it from the t-shirts I still have in my collection plus various other goodies collected over the years.

I am thankful this site was started @dangeRuss@fivetalents it’s really nice to still interact regularly with some of the old crew over there, but miss many who I was quite surprised didn’t become regulars over here.

Life goes on, but SD will never quite do it for me. Too big, too impersonal. For instance, I won a t-shirt over there about a month ago (for what I don’t know, guess posting up good deals). filled out their form to claim it, never got it. That’s okay, probably will just keep wearing my FW BF shirts since they were so creative and distinctive.

Hope everyone from the old corral is doing well. a shout out to @mvp9596 and @NMIMW@MisterBill@VBMcGB and some others I miss interacting with on a more frequent basis.

LOL, I think I hit the submit button to post my reply to that thread at the same time you locked it. I’m copying what I posted here:

"I agree. I see or use FW swag in my house daily but I try not to think about it too much anyway. It took a long time to get used to habitual things like not being able to search their forums for past threads/info (the Way Back Machine only works if you already have the exact thread URL already). If you didn’t get a promised t-shirt at FW, a moderator would have apologized and personally ensured you got one ASAP, and might have thrown in a little swag too.

Relatedly, it would have been nice to have some recognition of PhW’s 1 year anniversary. It wasn’t easy to pull of what we all did on such short notice, and quite a number of people volunteered their time to make it all happen.

It is sad not to have everyone all together on one site, but I think of all of the new post-FW options, PhW was been the most active (and largest?). SD is a lot bigger and a lot more active but a lot more hostile and impersonal, and other options are much smaller, less active, and more cliquish… or don’t have a proper forum format that encourages discussion/member sharing/deal posting, etc. PhW has had it’s mis-steps, but that is to be expected and it will continue to improve over time. So, I think a number of people who migrated elsewhere may eventually find their way (back) here."

Rite Aid will be open for their Black Friday sale on Thanksgiving, November 22nd, at 7AM! The sale will end on Saturday, November 24th. They’ll be one of the retailers open all day on Thanksgiving Day again this year.

This ad scan is a bit difficult to read, but that is part of the fun as we use it as a preview of what’s included in their sale! As soon as we get a higher resolution copy, we’ll be sure to share that ASAP.

Rite Aid is offering the usual drugstore fare in their Black Friday ad, which they call their Best Offers Of The Year! They do have many B1G1 FREE and B1G2 FREE offers again and several high dollar Bonus Cash items - mostly gift cards but others as well. Bonus Cash Rewards at Rite Aid is a program where you purchase participating items from their ad and they will reward you with Bonus Cash automatically added directly to your wellness+ card for use at your next visit.

Since you’re getting a good preview of items in this flyer, now is a great time to pick out what you want and watch for coupons that you can stack with their low prices and Bonus Cash items!"

Use this thread to post announcements of when a new quarterly 5% category is open for activation for the Chase Freedom credit card. Please include the eligible categories and deadline. Discussion is also welcome!

Note: as of 2018, you will no longer be able to activate 5% categories by text, and it seems like text reminders will no longer be sent as well. However, they will automatically send email alerts before each quarter when it is time to activate. You may continue to activate via email, Chase Pay, or online.

Swagbucks.com is a GPT (Get Paid To) site that allows you to earn points (aka swagbucks) that can be redeemed for gift cards, charitable donations, and Swagstakes. You can get paid to do many activities like watching videos, taking surveys, visiting websites, playing games, accepting offers, printing coupons, and many more. Many of the activities can be done while multi-tasking/doing other things.

Popular GCs include Amazon, PayPal, eBay, Walmart, Target, Steam, Starbucks, CVS, Home Depot, Lowes, Best Buy, and iTunes, but there are many others. They also offer virtual Visa and MasterCards cards. Redemptions rates for GCs: 1 SB = 1 cent. Once each month, you can get 12% off any $25 GC (excluding PayPal), so redeeming bucks for such a GC will cost 22,000 SBs instead of 25,000 SBs.

Also, Paypal recently began offering a free PayPal Cash MasterCard debit card that allows you to spend your PayPal account balance wherever MasterCards are accepted, even a B&M purchase at your favorite mom & pop that doesn’t offer GCs through Swagbucks. So as long as you don’t need your major credit card protections, like extended warranties, you can load up your PayPal balance with PayPal GCs from Swagbucks and spend that money wherever you choose (both in store and online). You can also withdraw money, fee-free, from 25K+ MoneyPass ATMs. There are no monthly or annual fees, no minimum balance requirement, and no credit check required.

I have lots more info to add here and will do so as I have time and if people express interest in this thread. If you want to see anything added to the OP, please let me know.

If you have an offer or SB topic that you feel deserves it’s own thread, please feel free to create one.

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Some lower-effort earning tips:

Daily Goal & Monthly Bonus: if you click on the clock at the top of every page, you’ll see the minimum needed to earn each day to get a daily bonus (roughly 10% of the daily goal in SBs). Once you reach that, a second larger daily bonus goal will be revealed and you’ll earn roughly 10% of that number in SBs once you reach the second goal (the 1st daily goal is not added to it, it is either or). You can earn up to 300 SB per month for reaching your 1st daily goal for 30 days in a row (less for shorter streaks). SBs from daily goals, daily bonuses, and the monthly bonus must be claimed with 2 weeks (and are usually made available by the 2nd or 3rd day of the month) .

7 days straight = 25 SB bonus

14 days straight = 100 SB bonus

21 days straight = 200 SB bonus

30 days straight = 300 SB bonus

Mobile Apps: You can earn points on their mobile apps. These can be run simultaneously with other SB activities, except other mobile apps. Mobile videos satisfy the daily watch item on your daily to do list. You can download them here: http://www.swagbucks.com/mobile

Videos mobile apps: the number of videos watched to earn 2 - 4 SBs varies depending on current offer. Once you hit the daily earning limit in app, move on to another mobile app. The 6 video only apps are EntertaiNow, IndyMusicTV, LifeStylz TV, MovieClips, SBTV, and Sportly TV.

Swagbucks app: allows you to do searches, enter swag codes, watch videos, and do discover activities. When you try to enter a swag code online and you get an error message saying that it is an in app code, this is the app they’re talking about. Another reason to install it is that every time a new swag code is released, this app will notify you and tell you where to find it.

Daily codes: each day they announce a swag code that you enter by clicking on the dial at the top of each screen (or in the Swagbucks app or the Swagbucks browser extension if indicated). Codes are usually announced in the late morning to late afternoon and can be redeemed for about 1 hour (longer on weekends and holidays). Codes are announced on their Facebook page and through the Swagbucks app. There are also sites which will send you text notifications if you register. Watch out for “extravaganza” code days where they might issue 6 or 7 codes in one day instead of 1 daily code worth 2 or 3 SB… and they be worth 6 - 9SB each or more.

Daily To Do List: you can earn a variable number of bonus bucks (usually 6-10 SBs) each day by completing the 8-item to do list on your homepage. You complete a number of these just by using the site anyway, so you may as well complete the list to get the bonus points. The list includes the daily poll (1 SB), daily crave/ncrave (SB varies), daily search (SB varies), daily watch (SB varies), daily discover (SB varies), attempt daily gold survey (SB varies), deal of the day (0 SB), complete a gold survey (SB varies).

Daily Searches: this is not as lucrative as it used to so I barely bother with it anymore. You used to be able o win a search 4 or more times a day and occasionally you’d get a very high value search reward Like 50 - 100 SB). Now its hard to get one win every few days and the value is rarely over 10 SB.

TLTG: The Laptop Guy: When available, watch a variable number of videos to earn 2SB. It’s best when there is a long run of 1 video/1 click = 2 SBs. He can be accessed under popular videos on the home page or sponsored videos on the watch page, or just keep his popup window open and refresh whenever you want to check to see if he’s available. This also satisfies your discover item on your daily to do list. http://www.swagbucks.com/?cmd=gn-jun-frame

5 DQ points in Gold Surveys Daily: if you do surveys, do them before Peanut Labs surveys because PL DQs count towards your daily gold survey DQ, byt no the other way around. Plus there are no limits to how many PL DQs you can get per day which can really help you reach your daily goal or bonus goal if you’re very close and running out of time.

nCrave: nCraves are groups of videos that earn varying amounts of points. It is a sub-heading under the “Watch” home page or you can click here: http://www.swagbucks.com/ncrave. The video sets that auto run are great when you are multitasking because you don’t have to click the next button after each video. Also make sure that you look at how much each video set is worth as the value changes periodically, even when the picture and title stay the same (what may have been paying 9 SB earlier may now only pay 3 SB), and nCraves you avoid for paying too little may suddenly be worth much more. nCraves satisfy the daily crave item on your daily to do list.

Team Challenges occur every 1 to 2 months beginning on a Monday at 1pm EST and end at 3pm EST on the Friday of that same week. You have to sign up for the promo and earn a specified number of team points (not the same as SBs but calculated on the SBs you’re earning anyway). You can sign up at any time during the challenge. If your team wins, you get a variable number of SBs for redeeming your bucks for a GC purchase (called a Swag Up). The winners often get 50 SBs and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place teams get lower value Swag Ups. Since you are earning SBs anyway, you may as ell sign up to team challenges and get a free bonus.

Coupon Printing: for the past month or so, there has been a coupon printing promo that awards 1 SB per coupon printed up to the daily limited. It started at 30 coupons a day, went up to 40, and is now at 50 100 coupons per day. You can print the coupons to a pdf file to save paper and ink, then only print the pages with coupons you actually want to use )(you also get 10 SB per redeemed coupon). If you take a couple of minutes a day to print 50 coupons, that’s an extra $15 SB a month.

A note on taking surveys: yes, they’re annoying and you get disqualified a lot, but if you do Gold surveys until you get 5 DQs, you earn 1 SB per DQ and then 1 SB for each Peanut Lab survey DQ. This can help you meet your daily bonus requirements in a pinch if you’re close but running out of time. More importantly, surveys are also a gateway to much more lucrative product testing (which often pay $10 to $50 and do not require writing reviews) and invitations to join short or long term discussion boards that vary in compensation. One 2-week discussion board I did paid $300 and I’ve done several that have paid $50 to $150. The long-term discussion boards that pay $10 - $25 a month a great as long as the effort is commensurate with the compensation, but I avoid discussion boards that give you the chance to win in favor of guaranteed monthly payments.

So, you want to also be able to sort by the date a thread was created, in the order they were posted (newest to oldest and vice versa)? I’d like to see that too. I hope that that is something easy for @dangeRuss to enable.

Hey I had a quick question, has anyone, or does anyone have an recommendations on tipping the front desk in order to hopefully get a better room or suite at check in. I have heard rumors that this works. I am going during the slow season of December and was hoping to get a nicer room. Any help would

I received an email from Big Lots with the subject line “Exclusive Reward Enclosed!”

The body says “We invite you to help us celebrate our 1 year Big Rewards Anniversary with $5 off$15 or more purchase. Valid 10-18-2018 to 10-27-2018.”

You must present printable coupon at checkout or use the included reward code online (sign in to your Rewards account and enter promo code REWARD05 at checkout). Note that the B&M printable coupon is linked to your Big Rewards account (it is only valid with a Big Rewards account ending in the last 4 digits of your account/your member card is scanned before the coupon), so you’ll need to log in before printing it.

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Promotional offer valid on pre-tax purchases. Purchase price calculated after exclusions. Offer valid in stores or at biglots .com. This is an exclusive one time use promotional offer for select Rewards members only and is not transferable. This offer does not apply to shipping or BIG! Delivery charges, previous transactions, price holds, non-purchases such as rentals, deposits, charitable donations, purchases of milk, dairy products, eggs and/or purchases of gift cards. Value is forfeited if item is returned. Big Lots is not responsible for expired offers or lost or stolen coupons or Rewards cards. By attempting to redeem this offer, user unconditionally agrees that decisions of Big Lots are final on all matters of interpretation, fact and procedure with respect to this offer. Valid only on in stock goods (including special orders). Void where prohibited. No cash value or cash back. To redeem coupon offer in stores, the coupon must be presented and surrendered at time of purchase. To redeem online, sign in to your Rewards account and enter promo code REWARD05 at checkout. Limit two promo codes for online purchases. When offers are combined, % off is applied first. Offer valid in store 10/18/18 - 10/27/18. Offer valid online through 11:59 pm ET on 10/18/18 - 10/27/18.

Must be used within a single transaction (can include multiple items).

Max one redemption per user.

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How to redeem your Coupon:

Shop for eligible items. (See below for exclusions).

Pay for your item by 8:00 AM Eastern Time on October 26, 2018

Enter the Coupon code in the redemption code field: PICKUPTEN

Terms & Conditions:

This Coupon is a 10% discount, valid from 8:00 AM ET on October 25, 2018 until 8:00 AM ET on October 26, 2018. No minimum purchase necessary. The Coupon discount is capped at a maximum value of $100. Discount applies to the purchase price (excluding shipping, handling, and taxes) of eligible items on eBay.​com, cafr.ebay.​ca and ebay.​ca.

Coupon must be used within a single transaction (and can include multiple eligible items), while supplies last. Max one redemption per user.

Only eBay users registered on ebay .​com, ebay .​ca and cafr.ebay .​ca, with an address located in the United States, Canada, Latin America or the Caribbean are eligible for the Coupon. Valid only for purchases from ebay.​com, ebay .​ca, and cafr.ebay .​ca. Any unused difference between the discount amount, as shown on the Coupon, and the purchase price of an item(s) in a single transaction (or cart) will be forfeited.

Coupon is subject to U.S. laws, void where prohibited, not redeemable for cash, has no face value, and cannot be combined with any other Coupon, or when paying with PayPal Credit Easy Payments or Gift Cards. eBay may cancel, amend, or revoke the Coupon at any time including in response to fraudulent activity.

Because we need another fake shopping holiday created by retailers to take more of our money, Amazon brings you…

Digital Day is coming December 28, 2018 12AM PST, offering great end-of-year savings on digital content across Amazon.

On December 28, you can shop Digital Day deals on amazon.com/digitalday or from your Amazon Fire tablet, Fire TV, Kindle, or compatible mobile device and take advantage of some of the year’s best digital deals on videos, music, apps, games and software! Save up to 80% off Marvel graphic novels, 75% off Kindle best-selling books, and 60% off digital magazines; save up to 35% off in-game items for Candy Crush Friends, Clash of Clans, and Final Fantasy Brave Exvius; plus Prime members can save up to 65% off movies like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Red Sparrow, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado on Prime Video

Get notified when Digital Day is live by subscribing to our newsletter below

Personally, I think it would be more important to focus on continuing popular threads from FW that are still active here.

Also, I’m not sure about mimicking another active site verbatim vs. focus on building membership and our own identity. Since a number of posters “borrow” coughplagiarizecough deals from other sites word for word, I’m not even sure that a bot is needed. Besides, it seems like one thing to overlook it if a member does it occasionally but quite another if it is our site policy to just copy large chunks of other sites onto our forums. I think it would harm our reputation.

We started off asking the community to suggest potential/alternative backup names for this forum in a public thread in case we should have to abandon PhatWalletForums.com

However, the discussion raised concerns that anyone could register submitted domain names before us and then try to sell them back to us for a premium. I know, right?

SUBMISSIONS

Soooo, we are now using a more secure process. We are inviting members to submit name suggestions to moderator CajunDavid via chat. I’m locking this thread to prevent anyone posting their suggestions here instead of through chat.

The chat feature can be accessed through the thought bubble at the top of your PC screen or in the drop down menu in mobile. Just click “See All Chats,” paste or start typing “CajunDavid” into the search box, and click on his profile in the list of search results. This adds him to your chat address book. Then just click on his contact to pull up your chat history with him (it will be empty if you’ve never chatted with him before). Enter your suggested phorum names (see what I did there?) in the text box at the bottom of the screen and hit return or click send.

You can submit as many entries as you like, whenever you like. If you wake up at 3am because you just thought of the best name ever and have to submit it ASAP before you forget it, that’s on you. I’ll update the thread title when a deadline/cutoff date is set.

VOTING

All submissions will be compiled and voted on by the moderators and administrators to narrow down the full list to the top best 5 - 10 options (depending on the quality of the submissions).

The finalists will then be registered before presenting them to the entire community for final voting. This way, we’ll have a strong name ready immediately “if push came to shove” and could “switch over to a new name in a heartbeat.”
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That’s it. Feel free to chat me up (or CajunDavid) if you have any problems or questions. It would also help if you could spread the word around the other forums to maximize participation.

Only invited, registered eBay Bucks participants who receive the promotional offer from eBay in My Messages [and via email or on eBay’s home page] are eligible. Sorry, no forwarding—the offer is not transferable.

8% in eBay Bucks on every Qualifying Purchase (some offers may also include 8% for selling by 10-27: thanks LORENW)

Promotion details

The Promotion starts at 5:00AM PT on October 18, 2017, and ends at 11:59PM PT on October 19, 2017 (the “Promotion Period”). Extra eBay Bucks can only be earned on every single item purchased that meets the minimum purchase requirement specified in the offer (a “Qualifying Purchase”). Promotion is valid on multiple Qualifying Purchases made within the Promotion Period. In order to qualify for the offer, you must click the email to activate.

*Qualifying Purchases exclude all items in the following categories: Classifieds, Business & Industrial, but only for Heavy Equipment within that category, Real Estate, Gift Cards & Coupons (including eBay Gift Cards, Gift Cards, and Digital Gifts within that category), Bullion (within the Coins & Paper category), and all categories in Motors, except Parts & Accessories.

Rewards are capped at $100 per transaction and $500 per Earn Period. Purchases must be completed during the Promotion Period and paid for with PayPal before the Promotion ends. eBay reserves the right to cancel, amend, or revoke the Promotion at any time. Other restrictions apply. See Terms & Conditions for details.

If anyone needs to edit their post, just click on the gray icon next to the reply/quote/up arrow/down arrow. There is an “EDIT” option. Looks like you can also delete your own post. Someone feel free to give it a try. Also, last week’s 1K Weekly Points posted by Kateivan still works today.

To clarify, the “gray icon” is the three vertical dots.

Also, please refrain from deleting content from the site except in extreme circumstances. If something in a reply you post expires, just update your post with the word “expired” (in bold-face font if you prefer) or strike through the text, do not delete it. If a deal in a thread you post expires, update the title to begin with “Expired,” and bump the thread with a reply stating that it is expired and the next moderator to see it will move it to the expired forum. We’re considering removing the delete privilege since it is being abused.

I’m sorry to hear what’s happened to your program. I’ve been enjoying seeing how much you all enjoy it and help each other out. I hope that the new program will be worthwhile or they respond to user feedback (including lack of participation) and restore or provide worthwhile rewards.

Whatever happens, I truly hope that you all will continue to participate on this site. There are tons of other opportunities in the CSG forum, including contests, sweepstakes, and other rewards programs. If you haven’t already, you should really also check out the Deals forum for the many freebies and hot deals!

Apple finally acknowledges and apologizes for software updates that slowed older phones to a crawl, claiming it was to increase the life of older batteries/conserve power to prevent random shutdowns. They deny doing it to force users to upgrade to/buy newer phones as claimed by a growing number of class action lawsuits across the country.

To compensate, they’re charging just $29 for brand new internal battery replacements on the iPhone 6 and models released aftwards, which should restore phone operation speeds to like new condition. They normally charge $79 for out-of-warranty battery replacements. iPhone 6 users can also purchase an iPhone Smart Battery Case for $99.

Find a store: https://www.apple.com/retail/ (“initial supplies of some replacement batteries may be limited”). Currently set to expire in “December 2018.”

They also promise that the next upgrade, in early 2018, will allow users to better see and understand the performance of their batteries, and wether it is impacting the phone’s performance.

We’ve been hearing feedback from our customers about the way we handle performance for iPhones with older batteries and how we have communicated that process. We know that some of you feel Apple has let you down. We apologize. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about this issue, so we would like to clarify and let you know about some changes we’re making.

First and foremost, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades. Our goal has always been to create products that our customers love, and making iPhones last as long as possible is an important part of that.

How batteries age

All rechargeable batteries are consumable components that become less effective as they chemically age and their ability to hold a charge diminishes. Time and the number of times a battery has been charged are not the only factors in this chemical aging process.

Device use also affects the performance of a battery over its lifespan. For example, leaving or charging a battery in a hot environment can cause a battery to age faster. These are characteristics of battery chemistry, common to lithium-ion batteries across the industry.

A chemically aged battery also becomes less capable of delivering peak energy loads, especially in a low state of charge, which may result in a device unexpectedly shutting itself down in some situations.

To help customers learn more about iPhone’s rechargeable battery and the factors affecting its performance, we’ve posted a new support article, iPhone Battery and Performance.

It should go without saying that we think sudden, unexpected shutdowns are unacceptable. We don’t want any of our users to lose a call, miss taking a picture or have any other part of their iPhone experience interrupted if we can avoid it.

Preventing unexpected shutdowns

About a year ago in iOS 10.2.1, we delivered a software update that improves power management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and iPhone SE. With the update, iOS dynamically manages the maximum performance of some system components when needed to prevent a shutdown. While these changes may go unnoticed, in some cases users may experience longer launch times for apps and other reductions in performance.

Customer response to iOS 10.2.1 was positive, as it successfully reduced the occurrence of unexpected shutdowns. We recently extended the same support for iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11.2.

Of course, when a chemically aged battery is replaced with a new one, iPhone performance returns to normal when operated in standard conditions.

Recent user feedback

Over the course of this fall, we began to receive feedback from some users who were seeing slower performance in certain situations. Based on our experience, we initially thought this was due to a combination of two factors: a normal, temporary performance impact when upgrading the operating system as iPhone installs new software and updates apps, and minor bugs in the initial release which have since been fixed.

We now believe that another contributor to these user experiences is the continued chemical aging of the batteries in older iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s devices, many of which are still running on their original batteries.

Addressing customer concerns

We’ve always wanted our customers to be able to use their iPhones as long as possible. We’re proud that Apple products are known for their durability, and for holding their value longer than our competitors’ devices.

To address our customers’ concerns, to recognize their loyalty and to regain the trust of anyone who may have doubted Apple’s intentions, we’ve decided to take the following steps:

Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29 — for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced, available worldwide through December 2018. Details will be provided soon on apple.com.

Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.

As always, our team is working on ways to make the user experience even better, including improving how we manage performance and avoid unexpected shutdowns as batteries age.

At Apple, our customers’ trust means everything to us. We will never stop working to earn and maintain it. We are able to do the work we love only because of your faith and support — and we will never forget that or take it for granted.

FBI Says You Should Reboot Your Home Office Router to Stop Russian Malware

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation recommended in a Friday statement that “any owner of small office and home office routers” reboot the devices, hopefully reducing their exposure to a widespread malware attack linked to Russian government actors. The FBI has reportedly seized a server used to escalate the infection, making rebooting an effective way to disable it.

A Cisco cybersecurity team said on Wednesday that at least 500,000 routers in 54 countries were impacted by the malware, known as VPN Filter. The software reportedly targets consumer-level routers used in home and small offices, and is able to both monitor local traffic and even wipe the routers, destroying them and cutting users off from the internet. Routers from Linksys, Netgear, TP-Link, and MikroTik were reportedly vulnerable – though again, the FBI is recommending rebooting all small or home office routers.

ETA: since the breach was found to be more extensive than previously known, this is now open to everyone and the deadline extended from 11-21-2017 to 01-31-2018https://phatwalletforums.com/post/24137

In the wake of the Equifax data breach, they are offering to waive the fee for their credit freeze service for requests initiated through November 21st. You can request a refund if you’ve paid for this service since September 7, 2017 when they finally announced the breach (something I think they should do automatically for any of the 143 million accounts put at risk by the breach).

IMHO, it should always be free since you didn’t ask them to collect and report your private financial info, nor can you have them delete your account… but I degress.

Stolen data included name, DOB, address, emails, Social Security numbers, etc., so it is important for those affected to freeze their accounts at all 4 bureaus (Equifax should pay for that too). With a freeze, you, current creditors, debt collectors, and officials with search warrents/subpoenas can access your report but new creditors can’t, meaning new credit applications will be denied. I’m not sure how temporarily unfreezing your account for X amount of time or a specific authorized creditor/employer/landlord would work (i.e., would they charge you to refreeze it after November 21st?), but it costs about $10 unfreeze depending on your state.

Just be aware that because of the similarity in the name you may eventually get a C&D letter. IANAL but it does seem like the stupid sort of thing that eBates would do.

We totally discussed just that but decided that a) it will help FW refugees find us/join for now and b) we need to priortize getting this site usable ASAP since the plug can be pulled on FW at any given moment with no warning (they’re many things that need to be tweeked/customized behind the scenes). Our venerable founder dangeruss is certainly open to suggestions for new site names as long as the domain name is available or can be purchased for a reasonable price.

Thanks for starting this. I can only hope this gains critical mass to keep on going.

I hope so too. Please help by spreading the word/sharing our web address as much as you can. Creating threads, replying, voting, and clicking through links as often as possible would be of great help too.

@david-scubadiver Hi David – a little OT but I’ve always wanted to ask, are you the same Scubadiver who was active in the old Motley Fool forums? I was active there in the last century and learned a lot about early retirement before MF started charging. That led to a great exodus and I ended up on FWF, maybe you too?

Ha! I remember using MF before they started charging. I was in grad school, and was only allowed to work 10 hours a week for $10.50 an hour. I had more debt than I could bear to think about, was eating a potato with butter for every meal for weeks at a time, and had a credit score in the 500s. I was bummed that they started charging because I couldn’t afford to pay and was desperate to improve my finances. I loved it up until then… great humor and great advice.

@fivetalents Was just going through some of my past PMs at FW to see who to hit up. Any criteria for an invite, or are we just going for quantity over quality (to an extent) at this point?

You are totally awesome for doing that! Right now we are primarily trying to provide a viable alternative for all soon to be former FW users. There are no membership requirements at this time, beyond being courteous and not spamming/self-promoting, so please invite anyone you like… including non-FW members.

This was a fairly popular thread on FW, so we’d like to offer a dedicated place to share referrals here as long as the rules are followed.

You can ONLY request that referrals be sent to you by chat/PM through this thread. Do not request referrals in other threads or a moderator will delete it and ask you to post it here. Use a separate reply for each request.

As is to be expected, the mods will keep a very close eye on this thread. Replies publicy posting your personal referral links or codes will be deleted (both here and in the rest of the forums).

When you reply to someone’s referral request in chat, also post a quoted reply to them here ASAP to let everyone know so the requester’s chat is not slammed with multiple referrals. Requestors should also edit their post ASAP to indicate that they no longer need a referral (don’t delete the original request, just add a note stating that you no longer need a referral or strike out the text). That should keep things organized and running smoothly even in the midsts of extremely popular offers/deals that require or are sweetened by referrals.

I followed the original version of this thread for three years and it worked very well because folks pitched in and helped each other (and very rapidly) without abusing the thread. I truly hope that will be true for this thread as well so that we can continue to offer this option.

@fivetalents
It was a crazy stacking deal on HDTVs (3 different promotions on top of BF prices). My brother in law still has his set from that deal (never saw a reason to upgrade). Unfortunately, the amount of green it earned is lost, and I was way too new to make a mental note of it.

Also, this was pre-achievements, otherwise, I’d have likely had a lot more.

Holy cow, that’s a really sophisticated deal for a newbie/1st time poster! This is the kind of advanced/complicated deal that made me hesitant to post when I was just lurking. I bow to you sir. No wonder Sears is closing stores and flirting with bankruptcy… they never recovered from you.

Also, remember that we had very short notice to get this site open and user friendly enough for everyone from FW to carry on without missing a beat.

What that means is a lot of customizations need to be done to satisfy our picky FW tastes (just ask @dangeRuss how many FW features I’ve asked him to implement here, not to mention the other mods and members).

We’re making improvements, modifications and upgrades continually, just like FW did in it’s first few years. We invite you to join our mission to build this into a great site that will eventually surpass the quality of our former home.

Tell us what’s missing for you. Be specific. Make suggestions. Post help requests and suggestions in the support forum.

Although everything can’t be addressed immediately, and some changes literally require coding, programming and a lot of important sounding techie stuff. However, there’s a very hard working team here who want to help everyone feel at home as much as possible, so we hope that you are willing to bear with us and give us a chance.

…no one has thought to take up all the FW user names on all these new forums and sell them back to the existing owners. Profit!

Of course, I am just kidding.

Or use them for themselves for the built in reputation. Every now and then I think “how do we know that MISTERCHEAP is really the real MISTERCHEAP.” Or how do we know hes not SUCKISSTAPLES spying on us? Hmm?

Double click on the avatar of the person you want to chat. Click on the 3 vertical white dots inside the blue circle to the right. Click “start new chat with _____.” This adds that person to your chat contacts list. Click on their contact and a start typing. Or…

Click on the thought bubble at the top right of every page. That pulls up your chat contacts list. Click “see all chats” and type the username you want to add to your contacts list. Click on their contact and a start typing.

To resume a chat

Double click on the avatar of the person you want to chat. Click on the 3 vertical white dots inside the blue circle to the right. Click “continue chat with _____.”

Click on the thought bubble at the top right of every page. That pulls up your chat contacts list. Scroll down to the member you want to chat with to open a chat popup window or chose “see all chats” to open up a full-screen chat window. Click on the member’s name whom you wish to resume a chat session with.

If you’ve recently been chatting with someone or you have an unread chat from someone, their avatar will appear in a little circle at the bottom right of your PC screen. Just click on it to resume you chat with them.

Good morning every body the posts for today Saturday October 7th are above on the new list due to the fact that our old site Fat Wallet is shutting down on Monday the 9th of October I’m not going to do two lists next week and I am just doing fine with is site it’s not quit as easy as our old one or I might just be spoiled but I am making do !! 🤗🤗🐒

Good morning @taurus742. We are working hard to customize this site as quickly as possible so that it feels more familiar and easy as our former home for all of us. Please help us by reporting anything that you would like to see adjusted, added, removed, tweaked etc. You can create a help request thread for each separate question, comment, or concern in the support lounge (https://phatwalletforums.com/category/19/phatwallet-support). If you don’t know how to create threads, click on the 3 vertical dots at the bottom of any of your posts/replies and select “flag this post for moderation.” You can describe what you need help with there and a moderator will help you. Thanks for being here and I hope that you and the other BeeBuzz folks have a great day!